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| Royal Enfield's new Thunderbird 500 rides with style. |
In India the Royal Enfield Thunderbird — a highly styled, laid back cruiser based on the Bullet — is a cult vehicle on a par with the Ford Mustang in America.
This new Thunderbird has a ready audience in India, anxious to buy it. In the rest of the world the reaction might be that it doesn't look like enough like a vintage British motorcycle. True.
It's available in three shades of black — none of them British Racing Green.
Here's a short video by Royal Enfield Media that tells you everything you need to know.
The format, pairing Thunderbird designer Siva with an attractive woman interviewer, says much in and of itself. This motorcycle is a fashion statement. "Sarah" looks great on it but, then, she looks pretty good off it, too.
Your results may vary.
One only-in-India note: here is a highly-styled motorcycle for which its designer proudly claims exceptional range.
You may as well demand to know if Sarah can cook. Her culinary skills are of no importance to this video.
Similarly, the Thunderbird's 20-liter fuel tank (more than five gallons), with its offset filler cap, likely contributes more to the attention the motorcycle gets in the city than the distances it will swallow across the subcontinent.
